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Star Wars Mouse Droid is a Rebel Rave Machine

Star Wars Mouse Droid is a Rebel Rave Machine

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• When does a droid need a party button? When it's an Imperial Mouse Droid that got a makeover from Sabine Wren. The post Star Wars Mouse Droid is a Rebel Rave Machine appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .

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Mouse Droid is the colloquial name for MSE-6, a small robot in the original Star Wars movie that looks a little like a toaster on wheels. Sabine Wren is a character from the show Star Wars Rebels who’s a prolific graffiti artist.

All caught up? Great.

Cass (the Canadian maker behind Chaos Theory) is clearly a fan of both eras of the franchise, and wasn’t afraid to ask the important questions. What if an Imperial Mouse Droid got a makeover from Sabine Wren?

To find out the hard way, she built an open-source, fully autonomous, 3D-printed droid that abandoned its Imperial duties to become a graffiti-covered rebel rave machine.

It was a labour of love. It wasn’t enough to build a new shell around an existing vehicle. Cass’s droid had to be able to navigate fully autonomously. And react wit

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